Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a 22-year-old man who has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing his former girlfriend last October in a high-profile stalking-murder case in Mitaka, western Tokyo. The court is set to issue a ruling Friday on Charles Thomas Ikenaga, ...

A Romanian court sentenced a man to life imprisonment Thursday for the rape and murder of a Japanese university student last August, two separate slayings and other crimes, the national news agency Agerpres reported. The Bucharest Court of Appeals handed down the sentence on ...